Advanced sandwich composite cores for patient support in advanced clinical imaging and oncology treatment

Morris, RH ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-3457, Geraldi, NR ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7564-7568, Pike, LC, Pawelke, J, Hoffmann, AL, Doy, N, Stafford, JL, Spicer, A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3177-8539 and Newton, MI ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4231-1002, 2020. Advanced sandwich composite cores for patient support in advanced clinical imaging and oncology treatment. Materials, 13 (16): 3549. ISSN 1996-1944

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Abstract

Ongoing advances in both imaging and treatment for oncology purposes have seen a significant rise in the use of not only the individual imaging modalities, but also their combination in single systems such as Positron Emission Tomography combined with Computed Tomography (PET–CT) and PET–MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) when planning for advanced oncology treatment, the most demanding of which is proton therapy. This has identified issues in the availability of suitable materials upon which to support the patient undergoing imaging and treatment owing to the differing requirements for each of the techniques. Sandwich composites are often selected to solve this issue but there is little information regarding optimum materials for their cores. In this paper, we presented a range of materials which are suitable for such purposes and evaluated the performance for use in terms of PET signal attenuation, proton beam stopping, MRI signal shading and X-Ray CT visibility. We found that Extruded Polystyrene offers the best compromise for patient support and positioning structures across all modalities tested, allowing for significant savings in treatment planning time and delivering more efficient treatment with lower margins.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Materials
Creators:	Morris, R.H., Geraldi, N.R., Pike, L.C., Pawelke, J., Hoffmann, A.L., Doy, N., Stafford, J.L., Spicer, A. and Newton, M.I.
Publisher:	MDPI AG
Date:	2020
Volume:	13
Number:	16
ISSN:	1996-1944
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.3390/ma13163549 DOI 1361385 Other
Rights:	© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Divisions:	Schools > School of Science and Technology
Record created by:	Linda Sullivan
Date Added:	08 Sep 2020 14:31
Last Modified:	23 Jun 2021 11:28
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/40640

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